Love the comment.

But worth every penny! That's THE car of my dreams!

I'd make do with a normal 427

If you take a close look at the wheels I am sure they look like Sierra calipers and uprights?!

If I change my name to Carol and move to selby......

Locost sells for £250 once owned by Carol Selby! I can see the headline now.

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If you take a close look at the wheels I am sure they look like Sierra calipers and uprights?!

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a fool and his money...

I though the most expensive car was a Ferrari 250 GTO? It says there a Bugatti?

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If you take a close look at the wheels I am sure they look like Sierra calipers and uprights?!

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If you take a close look at the wheels I am sure they look like Sierra calipers and uprights?!

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I don't believe it - I actually went back and looked at the picture to see if this was true

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“It’s a special car.”

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I've heard it said that the typical modern kit-car cobra replica is a technically far superior car to the original anyway.

(is this the kit-car-forum equivalent of "fight! fight! fight!" ?)

Obviously no-one has told him he could build a sports car for £250 and race it too.

Weren't they that floopy the chassis was part of the suspension? A modern one would go, stop and corner faster. But it wouldn't be Carol Shelby's own motor. Otherwise, a very tasty bit of kit.

I've got a back copy of a car mag from the eighties with a test-drive of an original 427 with lots of Cobra facts and figures.
One of said factoids was that two 427s were built with dual Paxton superchargers, putting out 800bhp. The manual transmission could'nt handle the grunt so they had to use very heavy, cast-iron cased Lincoln Cruise-o-matics.